[1] The UPV received 16% of the vote in the April 1978 parliamentary elections, winning nine seats.
[2][1] It nominated Joseph Ki-Zerbo as its candidate in the presidential elections in May.
Ki-Zerbo finished last in the four-man field with 16% of the vote.
In 1979 the party was renamed the Voltaic Progressive Front.
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